Here are some stories to pacify the masses ’til Monday:
- It isn’t bad enough that she can’t answer the tough questions, but now Hillary is planting people in the audience to ask softball questions. But she promises not to do it again.
- How does a Chinese diesel powered sub get within torpedo range of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
- The national debt has reached $9,000,000,000,000.
- After Pat Robertson backed pro-choice candidate Rudy Giuliani, the Pope came out to support Hillary. Not really.
- Iraqpundit asks: “Is your hatred for George Bush so great that you prefer to see millions of civilians suffer just to prove him wrong?”
- The fellas who debunked Michael Mann’s hockey stick and showed us it was hotter in the 30s than in the 90s won best science blog this year.
- The woman who died in the Phoenix Airport strangled herself accidentally.
- Ron Paul, Tancredo and Duncan Hunter are not invited to the Iowa debates. Paul supporters respond.
- 232 reasons to love your Corps
And in non-political news:
- A real Da Vinci Code?
- It isn’t easy getting noticed as a female serial killer. Stupid glass ceiling and all.
- Snakes with two heads-Photos. Pretty much sums it up.
- 32 years ago today, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior.

